And now, with the impending fuel shortage in the United States, American scientists have begun to develop biofuels! They first used rapeseed methyl ester in the engine, which burned for 1000 hours, proving that this fuel is completely combustible! Moreover, they define biodiesel in terms of renewable fatty acid monoesters. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis is two years earlier than in history.

At the same time, these scientists continue to study the use of fatty acid methyl ester or ethyl ester instead of diesel fuel, that is, the use of monoesters of fatty acids from animals or plants, including fatty acid methyl esters, fatty acid ethyl esters and fatty acid propyl esters, instead of diesel combustion. Because of the urgency of reality, their research is progressing very quickly.

In addition to the use of gasoline for small cars, all heavy trucks use diesel as fuel, as long as the problem of diesel is solved, the current fuel problem can be solved!

Hearing this, Reagan was very happy: "In this case, let's industrialize production on a large scale, and solve our fuel problem urgently, if this technology is popularized on a large scale, even the energy problem in Western Europe will be solved."

"However, this will lead to a more serious food problem." James said.

Food Problem! Biodiesel is produced from plants and animals! This will naturally lead to a very complicated problem, the world's arable land area is limited, and the food grown is also limited, so if the biodiesel technology is carried out, a large amount of food will inevitably be consumed, and some people in the world will go hungry!

"Well, that's a nice drawback!" Hearing James's words, Bush patted his thigh and said: "We don't just want to use these technologies ourselves, we must promote biodiesel technology to the whole of Europe!" ”

Bush, with his political insight, immediately discovered the advantage of this shortcoming, which could just be used to strike at the Soviet Union!

Since the seventies, the USSR has been importing grain from Western Europe! Until this year, the Soviet Union was still importing grain from Western Europe, what does this mean? The Soviets themselves had limited agricultural production technology and could not produce enough food from the existing land! Therefore, the USSR needed to import grain in order to be able to meet their needs!

In the past, Western Europe exported grain, the Soviet Union exported oil, and each side could be said to have taken what it needed. But now, under the manipulation of the Soviets, the price of oil in the world has begun to rise significantly! In this way, Western Europe not only cannot use grain as a weapon, but must also demand that the Soviets export oil!

This is certainly something that Western Europe does not want to see, and what will happen if they find out that they can produce fuel from food? Of course, to make fuel from grain, and not to export to the USSR! In this way, the Soviets will go hungry!

Moreover, if the use of grain to make fuel causes a shortage of food all over the world, then the price of food in the world will increase according to supply and demand! This is good for Western Europe, for the United States, because they both have surplus food!

"Yes, our technology should be vigorously promoted! In the early days, we can even support these companies through the government! Reagan also said.

The capitalist economy is self-reliant and self-fending, and the government rarely takes the initiative to support projects, but now, Reagan has made up his mind that this project must be transformed into productive forces as soon as possible!

"However, this can only make biodiesel, and in addition to diesel, we need gasoline, we need jet fuel." James continued: "So, relying on biodiesel alone is not going to meet our needs at this stage, and we need a new oil industry. Now, our oil experts are still developing shale oil extraction technology. ”

Shale oil! In the United States, Monterey, California, is the main reservoir of shale oil in the United States, and is believed to have 13.7 billion barrels of recoverable shale oil reserves, accounting for 2/3 of the United States. So, also known as the shale revolution in the United States and the new golden age of energy, the United States used to be a pure oil importer, so it had to maintain the energy security of the Middle East, but then what? The United States even competes with Saudi Arabia in terms of oil exports!

Although the concept was only hyped up later, the history of shale oil is not short.

Oil shale, also known as oil shale, is a sedimentary rock with high ash content that contains combustible organic matter. Its main difference from coal is that the ash content is more than 40 percent, and the main difference with carbonaceous shale is that the oil content is more than 3.5 percent. In fact, it can be simply said that oil shale is a kind of oil-containing mineral, and the production process of shale oil is to remove the minerals and separate the fuel oil.

As early as 800 years ago, the Fushun region of China used oil shale as fuel for making pottery. It's just that at that time, like coal, this mineral was burned directly. The industrial method of dry distillation of oil shale oil to produce shale oil began in the first half of the 19th century. In 1835, France built the world's first shale oil plant, which was dry distilled to produce shale oil, and then reproduced kerosene, paraffin, etc. for lighting. Shale oil production began in Britain in 1862, and by 1937, Western Europe produced 500 thousand tons of shale oil.

It's a pity that this mode of production is more costly, because the Middle East has mined crude oil, a large number of high-yield self-sprayed crude oil, as long as you dig a hole in the ground, the crude oil will be sprayed up by itself, this way, the cost is very low, a barrel is only a few dollars or so, therefore, the shale oil industry in Western European countries has been shut down, there are cheap oil imports, and you still need to make great efforts to engage in shale oil!

But now, the situation is different!

Oil is no longer cheap! The price of crude oil in the world has soared to the high price of one hundred and twenty dollars a barrel of oil! Such oil prices are a major blow to the economy of the Western world! The high oil prices will affect the transportation industry, causing the price of all consumer goods to rise, and will affect the downstream products of the petrochemical industry, resulting in rising prices!

And in such a situation, the development of shale oil is once again on the agenda!

"After the arguments of our oil experts, now, the extraction of shale oil will be reduced to about $80 per barrel, and if it is further large-scale production, it will definitely be reduced, and eventually it may be reduced to $50 a barrel, so that our shale oil is still very competitive." James said: "And now, looking at this trend, the world crude oil price will remain at a high level for a long time, and the full launch of our shale oil industry is also imminent." (To be continued.) )